The slow pace of the narrative, and the austere, Bressonian withholding of emotion that brings the transcendent scenes later in the film into sharp relief, are enough to get studio executives reaching for the red buzzer.
Before he began painting the walls of the nursery school here, the only art on display was rudimentary paper mushrooms expressing a range of emotions and austere, sometimes bloody prints depicting important events and figures in Turkish history.
Nina Nastasia sings austere country in a withdrawn voice sheathing disturbed emotion.
Minghella hopes the austere stage may be a foil to extravagant emotion.
As in Dr. Johnson's periodical essays, the pathos of "The Crack-Up" lies in the tension between the austere, impersonal burnish of Fitzgerald's style and the roiling emotion it has been enlisted to master.
The belief that moral statements were subjective displays of emotion – no more objective than hissing or handclapping – underpinned an austere view of philosophy that lasted until the 1970s.
His father was an austere teacher who believed in hard work and the repression of emotions: Helmut was told not to cry when he fell over.
Ellis's letters show that he did have concerns regarding the "idealistic and literary aspects" of Symonds's writing and felt it was more suitable to "adopt a rather austere style … appealing to the reason rather than to the emotions".
Finally, without diffidence or embarrassment (emotions unknown to her), Temple showed me her bedroom, an austere room with whitewashed walls and a single bed, and, next to the bed, a very large, strange-looking object.
Supreme craft dovetailed with a pressure-cooker sort of emotion, which comes across as rigidity or, in the case of Zurbarán, as austere, primitive and fervid artisanship.
Mr. Majidi is not afraid of bold emotions, and his eye for color and composition finds amazing beauty in a harsh, austere world (A. O. Scott).
